TY - JOUR
T1 - Marital Interaction Coding System
T2 - Revision and empirical evaluation
AU - Heyman, Richard E.
AU - Weiss, Robert L.
AU - Eddy, J. Mark
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Acknowledgements--Portions of this paper were presented at the 25th Annmd Convention o/" the Association .lot the Ath'am'ement t?/ Behavior Therapy, New York, November, 1991. Richard Heyman was supported in the preparation of this article by National Institute of Mental Health training grants M HI8935 and M H19107. Mark Eddy was supported in part by a National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award. We thank Steve Beach, Jay Belsky, Victoria Follette, John Gottman, Ted Jacob, Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, Ken Leonard, Karen Mathews, Barbara McCann, Tim O'Farrell, Ruth Seilhammer and Diana Thompson for permission to use their data. We also thank Brian Sandy for his assistance in preparing the data set.
PY - 1995/7
Y1 - 1995/7
N2 - Given the vast amount of codeable information in marital interactons, observational coding systems must emphasize particular classes of behavior. The most widely used marital coding scheme, the Marital Interaction Coding System (MICS), like many older 'behavioral' coding systems, emphasizes verbal content over affect. Changes made to the MICS between versions III and IV are described; they were intended to increase the system's use of coded affect and to decrease autodependence in sequential analysis. We used an archival data set of 994 couples' videotaped conflict negotiations coded with the MICS. As intended, the MICS-IV, relative to the MICS-III, was found to have the advantage of capturing more non-verbal affect expressed during marital interactions, which resulted in stronger interactional contingencies (e.g. Wife Blame → Husband Blame, Husband Facilitation → Wife Facilitation). The MICS-IV also yielded significantly lower levels of spurious autodependence.
AB - Given the vast amount of codeable information in marital interactons, observational coding systems must emphasize particular classes of behavior. The most widely used marital coding scheme, the Marital Interaction Coding System (MICS), like many older 'behavioral' coding systems, emphasizes verbal content over affect. Changes made to the MICS between versions III and IV are described; they were intended to increase the system's use of coded affect and to decrease autodependence in sequential analysis. We used an archival data set of 994 couples' videotaped conflict negotiations coded with the MICS. As intended, the MICS-IV, relative to the MICS-III, was found to have the advantage of capturing more non-verbal affect expressed during marital interactions, which resulted in stronger interactional contingencies (e.g. Wife Blame → Husband Blame, Husband Facilitation → Wife Facilitation). The MICS-IV also yielded significantly lower levels of spurious autodependence.
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U2 - 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00003-G
DO - 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00003-G
M3 - Article
C2 - 7654167
AN - SCOPUS:0028999968
SN - 0005-7967
VL - 33
SP - 737
EP - 746
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 6
ER -